Church History 6.9.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: At his prayer the water became oil, and some of it was kept as a relic.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:251

τούτου δὲ ἅμα λόγῳ πραχθέντος ἐπευξάμενον τῷ ὕδατι ἐγχέαι κατὰ τῶν λύχνων πίστει τῇ εἰς τὸν κύριον γνησίᾳ παρακελεύσασθαι. ποιησάντων δὲ καὶ τοῦτο παρὰ πάντα λόγον δυνάμει παραδόξῳ καὶ θείᾳ μεταβαλεῖν ἐξ ὕδατος εἰς ἐλαίου ποιότητα τὴν φύσιν, παρά τε πλείστοις τῶν αὐτόθι ἀδελφῶν ἐπὶ μήκιστον ἐξ ἐκείνου καὶ εἰς ἡμᾶς βραχύ τι δεῖγμα τοῦ τότε θαύματος φυλαχθῆναι.

English · Claude translation

When this was done at once, he prayed over the water and bade them pour it into the lamps with genuine faith in the Lord. When they did this, against all reason, by a wonderful and divine power, its nature was changed from water into the quality of oil; and a small sample of the miracle of that time has been preserved from then until our own day by very many of the brothers there.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:251 · Wilhelm Dindorf, ed., Eusebii Caesariensis Opera, vol. 4: Historiae ecclesiasticae libri I–X (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871) · Greek text: W. Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0

Text

As printed in Dindorf, Eusebii Opera 4. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Teubner, 1871); made independently of existing English translations.

Compare

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 1 (1890) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

Topics

Prayer

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.9.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/9/3/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.9.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/9/3/).